2nd - 4th Grade Activities : Page 47

Tap into your Irish roots by making an adorable leprechaun hat vase for St. Patrick's Day in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Try this fun math card game with your third grader to practice division, addition, and problem solving!

Shrimp are dredged in sweet rice flour and shredded coconut and baked till they're crisp and golden.

Kids get to play mad scientist in this wacky drawing game that's a great way to help kids to mellow out after the high-energy antics of recess.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Help second graders grasp their understanding of tall tales and practice writing with this activity by writing about their own family!

Help your kid celebrate Valentine's Day and keep up with her homework with this butterfly pencil craft!

Make this Easter egg craft that works as both a fun necklace or a decorative garland to welcome warm weather and spring sunshine.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

You and your child will have a blast baking this wonderful spin on a childhood classic, PB n' J cookies. Easy to make, and even easier to enjoy!

In this activity, your child will explore the difference between boredom and curiosity in building greater attentiveness and happiness in the present moment.

Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.

This felt pie craft not only teaches sewing skills, but is a sneaky introduction to elementary math standards like geometry, measurement and estimation.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Your fourth grader will hone his fine motor skills and learn to follow directions as he creates this recycled angel tree topper out of an ordinary soda bottle!

Make a beautiful bowl out of printed lines of poetry that you can use to store everything from jewelery to candy.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

Homemade breakfast bars with chocolate and cherries make a tasty to-go breakfast for Valentine's Day. Whip up a batch of homemade breakfast bars with your kid.

All it takes is some colored felt fabric, a needle, thread, and a few beads and your daughter can make decorative felt pinwheels!

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

Create a homemade pair of sunglasses with colored lenses to see just how light and color affect our sight! Use this fun project to practice science!

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.

Make this easy homemade tie for a great Father's Day gift this year.

Use up your leftover hardboiled Easter eggs with our healthy, gourmet variations on an old classic: deviled eggs

A heart wreath is a pretty and festive Valentine's Day decoration. Make a heart wreath with your child this Valentine's Day.

These festive red and blue drink umbrellas are the perfect DIY party idea. While you're making them you can even sneak in a little compass practice.